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Representing a huge win for Ecuador’s Indigenous groups, this year the country held a referendum on extractivism, the first of its kind worldwide. On August 20, citizens headed to the polling stations to choose whether to halt oil exploitation in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon and prohibit mining in the Chocó Andino region in the Andes. The historic victory for the rights of nature on both accounts came after a decade of tireless campaigning from grassroots groups across Ecuador, including far-reaching and strategic digital campaigns.